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In an IoT world, we interact with our gadgets, tools, environment and vehicles in new ways such as touch, eye tracking or speech. As product formats change and features evolve, there is the need to develop new sensors to facilitate this ‘electronics everywhere’ era where monitoring and effortless control become paramount.

Harris Corporation and Nano Dimension worked together to explore the potential use of 3D printing for radio frequency (RF) circuits. The resulting data showed similar RF performance between 3D printed and the baseline amplifiers, demonstrating the viability of 3D printing technology to produce a functional RF circuit.

the design and performance of planar capacitors fabricated with multi-material and multi-layered Additive Manufacturing Electronics (AME) technology, enabling capacitors with different areas and different layer counts resulting in capacitance values from a few picofarads (pF) to several nanofarads (nF).

This paper presents a few single-substrate multi-metal layer antennas using additively manufactured electronics (AME) solution based on piezoelectric additive fabrication. By vertically stacking metal layers in a 3D printed single substrate, the designed antenna prototype exhibits the advantages of wide bandwidth and ultra-low profile.

DragonFly IV multi-material 3D printer for Additively Manufactured Electronics (AME) powered by the FLIGHT Software suite, launched in November 2021.

By taking advantage of the conductive and dielectric multi-material-integrated additive manufacturing technique, the proposed transmissive MS has an ultrathin thickness (0.11 free-space wavelength)

The realization of custom-designed 3D printed circuit boards (PCBs) was achieved with a Nano Dimension DragonFly 3D printer which enables PCBs that are designed around a standard 1.25mm ferrule for optical connection of the optical fiber to provide full compatibility with standard light delivery system.

In this work, a shared-aperture dual-band FZP metalens antenna is proposed by merging two single-band FZP metalens antennas, operating at distinct frequency bands, seamlessly into one. Instead of using conventional metallic conductors, double-screen meta-grids are devised in this work to form the concentric rings.

It’s very likely additive manufactured electronics (AME) will be central to building the next generation of highly integrated device antennas. The current high cost and long cycle of production for mm-wave antenna-in-package (AiP) makes proof-of-concept customized prototyping difficult.